The American Dream
The popular nickname given to the US because of the belief in the American dream and America as a place where you can start anew.
What is "The land of opportunity"?
Word for a society in which several cultures live side by side.
What is multiculturalism?
What is English a a Lingua Franca?
The unfair system of racial segregation in South Africa (1948-1994).
What is apartheid?
A type of society in literature (or real life) that camouflages as a utopia, but is actually quite the oppressive and controlling.
What is a dystopia?
The significant civil rights frontfigure, who lead the March on Washinton in 1963, but was sadly later assassinated in 1968.
Who was Martin Luther King Jr?
The remarkably wealthy, current Tory Prime Minister of the UK, who replaced Liz Truss after her very short term in office.
Who is Rishi Sunak?
The type of English that Danish students have to learn in school, which is free of slang, dialect and grammatical errors.
What is Standard English?
The first South African winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, who, among other things, wrote the short story "The Moment before the Gun Went off".
Who was Nadine Gordimer?
A latin word meaning something "new", which in the context of science fiction is anything in a story that does not exist in our current reality but is still scienfically plausible.
What is novum?
The advancing American border that marked the continuous westwards expansion and European settlement until around 1890.
What was the Frontier?
In "I, Daniel Blake" the main character Daniel is told that he has to spend 37 hours each week applying for jobs - and have documentation - if he wants to receive this benefit from the government.
What is a jobseeker's allowance?
The official pronunciation of e.g. Britain which is also sometimes called BBC English or the Queen's English.
What is Received Pronunciation?
The three capitals of South Africa, which are split into the administrative capital, the legislative capital, and the judicial capital.
What are Pretoria, Cape Town, and Bloemfontein?
What is frontloading? (frontloaded sentences)
A significant change made to the American Constitution in 1865 that abolished slavery and involuntary work in the US - except for in the case of prison labour.
What is The 13th Amendment?
The name of the main character's son in the short story "My Son the Fanatic".
Who is Ali?
A new type of simplified English with a limited vocabulary that can be used by speakers around the world to communicate without slang or idioms.
What is Globish?
An diverse multiracial ethnic community in especially South Africa, who were classified as a distinct racial group during apartheid.
What are Coloureds?
A literary device used in e.g. "Clone, Clone on the Range", which enables an author to get their message across to the readers by making fun of the characters in the story.
What is (verbal) irony?
The author of the short story "One Friday Morning", which was inspired by his own experiences as a young black person in America.
Who was Langston Hughes?
When a speaker uses dirty tactics or arguments that are not based in logic in order to get their point across, such as attacking their opponent or using scare tactics.
What is a rhetorical fallacy?
CHANCE
Name 8 English-speaking countries outside of the UK and America (examples):
- Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Canada
- The Bahamas, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Fiji, Ghana, Kenya
- The Phillipines, Samoa, Singapore, etc.
The current president of South Africa and the leader of the ANC, who has often been criticized for being too soft on his political opponents and rivals.
Who is Cyril Ramaphosa?
In science fiction, this is the effect created in a person's mind when they encounter something strange, yet oddly familiar in a text that only makes sense in the context of the universe of the text.
What is cognitive estrangement?